People_

Professor Peter Morgan

BA(Hons), MA, PhD (Monash), FAHA

Director, European Studies Program

Room 535

Phone

+61 2 9036 5480

Email

peter.morgan@sydney.edu.au

Address

A18 - Brennan MacCallum Building

The University of Sydney

Details

Member of The Vere Gordon Childe Centre

Biographical details

Peter Morgan is Director of the European Studies program at the University of Sydney. Research areas include world literature, German and European literature and Intellectual History and Gay literature.

Research interests

Dictatorship and Literature: Ismail Kadare
Masculinity and Homosexual Identity in European Modernism
World Literature Theory

Teaching and supervision

Teaching

European Studies undergraduate and postgraduate units

Supervision

MA and Ph.D. Supervision in German and European Studies

Current projects

Ismail Kadare after Communism, 1990-2010. Volume 2 of a comprehensive study of the Albanian writer’s life and works.
Homosexual Masculinity and the European Modernist Novel.
The Impace of World Literature Theory on National Literature Paradigms.

Associations

University and Community

Director of the European Studies Program, University of Sydney
President, German Studies Association of Australia (GSAA)
Vice-President, Contemporary European Studies Association of Australia (CESAA)
SEA (Secondary Education Authority, WA) German Syllabus Committee
Chief Examiner, TEE German Examinining Board, WA
Goethe Institute, Munich, Accredited Examiner
Head of Department, German, UWA, 1994-2000
Head, School of European Languages and Studies, UWA, 1999-2004
Acting Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Humanities and the Social Sciences, UWA, 2006
Acting Head, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney, 2011

Professional journal editorial boards

Editor, Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies (ANZJES)
Advisory Board, Journal of European Studies
Advisory Board, Oxford German Studies
Editorial Board, Essays in French Literature and Cultural Studies (EFLaCS)
Editorial Board, Transpositionen - Studien zur deutschen Literatur, Philosophie und Kultur
Advisory Board, Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies

PhD and master's project opportunities

European Studies

Current research students

Project title	Research student
Finding the True Self: The Conception of Authenticity from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Charles Taylor	Fanzy FAN
Time and Other Worlds in Late Nabokov	David POTTER

Selected publications

Stefan George: The Homosexual Imaginary

(Legenda, 2024)

The World Within: Self-perception and images of the Other in German literatures and cultures

(Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2018)

Text, Translation, Transnationalism: World Literature in 21st Century Australia

(Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2016)

Ismail Kadare: The Writer and the Dictatorship, 1957-1990

(Maney Publishing, 2010)

Publications

By Type

Expand all

Books

Morgan, P. (2024). Stefan George: The Homosexual Imaginary. Cambridge: Legenda. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2010). Ismail Kadare: The Writer and the Dictatorship, 1957-1990. Leeds, United Kingdom: Maney Publishing.

Edited Books

Bandhauer, A., Lay, T., Lu, Y., Morgan, P. (2018). The World Within: Self-perception and images of the Other in German literatures and cultures. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2016). Text, Translation, Transnationalism: World Literature in 21st Century Australia. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.

Book Chapters

Morgan, P. (2019). Pederasty and Anarchist Individualism in the Work of John Henry Mackay. In Christine Magerski, David Roberts (Eds.), Kulturrebellen – Studien zur anarchistischen Moderne, (pp. 119-137). Wiesbaden: Springer VS. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2018). Germanistik, German Studies and the New World Literature. In Andrea Bandhauer, Tristan Lay, Yixu Lu, Peter Morgan (Eds.), The World Within: Self-perception and images of the Other in German literatures and cultures, (pp. 3-26). Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Morgan, P. (2018). Teaching European Studies in Australian Universities. In Bruce Wilson and Bruno Mascitelli (Eds.), 'So Distant, So Close': Australia and the European Union in the 21st Century, (pp. 226-243). Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Bandhauer, A., Lay, T., Lu, Y., Morgan, P. (2017). Vorwort (Preface). In Andrea Bandhauer, Tristan Lay, Yixu Lu, Peter Morgan (Eds.), The World Within: Self-perception and images of the Other in German literatures and cultures, (pp. 9-10). Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Morgan, P. (2016). Introduction: World Literature Studies and the Transnational Turn. In Peter Morgan (Eds.), Text, Translation, Transnationalism: World Literature in 21st Century Australia, (pp. 1-30). Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Morgan, P. (2016). The European Origins of Albania in Ismail Kadare's The File on H. In Andrew Hammond (Eds.), The Novel and Europe: Imagining the Continent in Post-1945 Fiction, (pp. 101-113). London: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2012). Ismail Kadare e l'orientalismo albanese. In Alessandra Scarsella and Giuseppina Turano (Eds.), La Scrittura Obliqua di Ismail Kadare, (pp. 31-46). Venice, Italy: Granviale Editori.
Morgan, P. (2011). Ismail Kadare's Inner Emigration. In Sara Jones and Meesha Nehru (Eds.), Writing under Socialism, (pp. 131-142). Nottingham, UK: Critical, Cultural and Communications (CCC) Press.
Morgan, P. (2011). Literature and Witnessing. In Deiters, Franz-Josef; Fliethmann, Axel; Weller Christiane (Eds.), Groteske Moderne - Moderne Groteske, (pp. 285-304). St. Ingbert: Roehrig Universitaetsverlag GmbH.
Morgan, P. (2011). Sacrifice, Modernite et perte dans Le Pont aux trois arches de Kadare [Sacrifice, modernity and loss in the "Three-Arched Bridge" by Kadare]. In Ariane Eissen and Veronique Gely (Eds.), Lectures dIsmail Kadare [Readings of Ismail Kadare], (pp. 195-210). Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2009). Kadare after Communism: Albania, the Balkans, and Europe in the Post-1990 Work of Ismail Kadare. In Christian Moraru (Eds.), Postcommunism, Postmodernism, and the Global Imagination, (pp. 137-167). New York, United States: Columbia University Press.
Morgan, P. (2009). Literature and National Redemption in W.G. Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction. In Gerhard Fischer (Eds.), W.G. Sebald: Schreiben ex patria / Expatriate Writing, (pp. 213-229). Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Morgan, P. (2007). "Die Heimat meiner Seele": The Significance of Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina for Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus. In Christine Magerski, Robert Ian Savage, Christiane Weller (Eds.), Moderne Begreifen: zur Paradoxie eines sozio-asthetischen Deutungsmusters, (pp. 205-220). Germany: DUV verlag. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2006). Paradigm Change in European Studies in Australia. In Axel Fliethmann, Christine Weller (Eds.), Tendenzen der internationalen Germanistik, (pp. 11-28). Sankt Augustin, Germany: Asgard Verlag.
Morgan, P. (2005). Georges Kien and the 'Diagnosis of Delusion' in Elias Canetti's Die Blendung. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Volume 157. United States: Gale.

show 12 more

Journals

Morgan, P. (2022). Tenses of the Present. Critical Horizons, 23(2), 203-210. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2020). Literature and lustration: Rebuilding social trust through literature. Journal of European Studies, 50(1), 60-69. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2020). The afterlife of a dictatorship: Ismail Kadare's post-communist reckoning with the Albanian past. Journal of European Studies, 50(3), 281-294. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2020). The Ethics of Narration in Helen Demidenko's The Hand That Signed the Paper, 1994 and 2017. AJS Review, 44(2), 368-383. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2020). The three worlds of Ismail Kadare. Modern Language Review, 115(1), 124-140. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2018). Changing the Face of Power: The Literary Reeducation of a Dictator. Politics, Religion and Ideology, 19(4), 562-581. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2018). Worlds and Letters. New Left Review, 109(jan-feb 2018), 151-159.
Morgan, P. (2017). Between the World and the Work: Civilisational Analysis in World Literature Studies. Australian Humanities Review, 62, 135-156.
Morgan, P. (2017). Literary transnationalism: A Europeanist's perspective. Journal of European Studies, 47(1), 3-20. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2017). Teaching European Studies as an Academic Discipline in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies, 9(2), 2-8.
Morgan, P. (2014). Stefan George's War: The End of the Homoerotic Dream. Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch fÃ¼r germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, 7(2014), 219-244.
Morgan, P. (2014). The Function of Translation in Global Literary Studies. The AALITRA Review - A Journal of Literary Translation, 8, 6-11.
Morgan, P. (2013). Translating the World: Literature and Re-Connection from Goethe to Gao. Revue de Litterature Comparee, 345(1), 63-79. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2012). Coming out in Weimar: Crisis and homosexuality in the Weimar Republic. Thesis Eleven, 111(1), 48-65. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2011). Greek Civilisation as a Theme of Dissidence in the Work of Ismail Kadare. Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 15, 16-32.
Morgan, P. (2010). Ismail Kadare: Writing under Dictatorship. Arts: the Proceedings of the Sydney University Arts Association, 32, 69-88.
Morgan, P. (2010). The Wrong Side of History: Albania's Greco-Illyrian Heritage in Ismail Kadare's 'Aeschylus or the Great Loser'. Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 14(2010), 92-111.
Morgan, P. (2010). Translation and Dictatorship: The Case of Ismail Kadare. The AALITRA Review - A Journal of Literary Translation, 2(November 2010), 37-41.
Morgan, P. (2009). "Your Story is now My Story": The Ethics of Narration in Grass and Sebald. Monatshefte fÃ¼r deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur, 101(2), 186-206.
Morgan, P. (2008). Ismail KadarÃ©'s The Shadow Literature, Dissidence, and Albanian Identity. East European Politics and Societies, 22(2), 402-424. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2008). The Failure to Invent the Truth: W.G. Sebald's Critique of West German Literature. Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch fÃ¼r germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, 1, 35-52.
Morgan, P. (2007). Consequences of Secondary Literature Study at University Level. Directions in Education, 16(14).
Morgan, P. (2006). Ismail Kadare: Modern Homer or Albanian Dissident? World Literature Today, 80(5), 7-11. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2006). Kadare - njÃ« Homer modern. Studia Albanica, 62, 102-105.
Morgan, P. (2005). The Sign Of Saturn: Melancholy, Homelessness and Apocalypse in W.G. Sebald's Prose-Narratives. German Life and Letters, 58, 76-92. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2004). Leslie Bodi: Literatur, Politik, IdentitÃ¤t-Literature, Politics, Cultural Identity: Review. AUMLA, 102, 140-145.
Morgan, P. (2003). The Spirit of the Place: Idyll as 'Imagined Community' in Goethe's Werther. AUMLA, (Special Issue) February, 42-55.
Morgan, P. (2002). Ancient Names â€¦ Marked by Fate . Ethnicity and the "Man without Qualities" in Ismail Kadare's Palace of Dreams. The European Legacy, 7(1), 45-60.
Morgan, P. (2002). Between Albanian Identity and Imperial Politics: Ismail Kadare's "The Palace of Dreams". Modern Language Review, 97(2), 365-379.

show 26 more

Magazine / Newspaper Articles

Morgan, P. (2006). Kadare, njÃ« Homer modern. Shekulli (The Century), 10.
Morgan, P. (2005). Ismail Kadare: Creativity under Communism. The Australian Newspaper.
Morgan, P. (2005). Look Wider for Laureates. The Australian Newspaper.

By Year

Expand all

2024

Morgan, P. (2024). Stefan George: The Homosexual Imaginary. Cambridge: Legenda. [More Information]

2022

Morgan, P. (2022). Tenses of the Present. Critical Horizons, 23(2), 203-210. [More Information]

2020

Morgan, P. (2020). Literature and lustration: Rebuilding social trust through literature. Journal of European Studies, 50(1), 60-69. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2020). The afterlife of a dictatorship: Ismail Kadare's post-communist reckoning with the Albanian past. Journal of European Studies, 50(3), 281-294. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2020). The Ethics of Narration in Helen Demidenko's The Hand That Signed the Paper, 1994 and 2017. AJS Review, 44(2), 368-383. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2020). The three worlds of Ismail Kadare. Modern Language Review, 115(1), 124-140. [More Information]

show 1 more

2019

Morgan, P. (2019). Pederasty and Anarchist Individualism in the Work of John Henry Mackay. In Christine Magerski, David Roberts (Eds.), Kulturrebellen – Studien zur anarchistischen Moderne, (pp. 119-137). Wiesbaden: Springer VS. [More Information]

2018

Morgan, P. (2018). Changing the Face of Power: The Literary Reeducation of a Dictator. Politics, Religion and Ideology, 19(4), 562-581. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2018). Germanistik, German Studies and the New World Literature. In Andrea Bandhauer, Tristan Lay, Yixu Lu, Peter Morgan (Eds.), The World Within: Self-perception and images of the Other in German literatures and cultures, (pp. 3-26). Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Morgan, P. (2018). Teaching European Studies in Australian Universities. In Bruce Wilson and Bruno Mascitelli (Eds.), 'So Distant, So Close': Australia and the European Union in the 21st Century, (pp. 226-243). Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Bandhauer, A., Lay, T., Lu, Y., Morgan, P. (2018). The World Within: Self-perception and images of the Other in German literatures and cultures. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2018). Worlds and Letters. New Left Review, 109(jan-feb 2018), 151-159.

show 2 more

2017

Morgan, P. (2017). Between the World and the Work: Civilisational Analysis in World Literature Studies. Australian Humanities Review, 62, 135-156.
Morgan, P. (2017). Literary transnationalism: A Europeanist's perspective. Journal of European Studies, 47(1), 3-20. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2017). Teaching European Studies as an Academic Discipline in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies, 9(2), 2-8.
Bandhauer, A., Lay, T., Lu, Y., Morgan, P. (2017). Vorwort (Preface). In Andrea Bandhauer, Tristan Lay, Yixu Lu, Peter Morgan (Eds.), The World Within: Self-perception and images of the Other in German literatures and cultures, (pp. 9-10). Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.

show 1 more

2016

Morgan, P. (2016). Introduction: World Literature Studies and the Transnational Turn. In Peter Morgan (Eds.), Text, Translation, Transnationalism: World Literature in 21st Century Australia, (pp. 1-30). Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Morgan, P. (2016). Text, Translation, Transnationalism: World Literature in 21st Century Australia. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Morgan, P. (2016). The European Origins of Albania in Ismail Kadare's The File on H. In Andrew Hammond (Eds.), The Novel and Europe: Imagining the Continent in Post-1945 Fiction, (pp. 101-113). London: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]

2014

Morgan, P. (2014). Stefan George's War: The End of the Homoerotic Dream. Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch fÃ¼r germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, 7(2014), 219-244.
Morgan, P. (2014). The Function of Translation in Global Literary Studies. The AALITRA Review - A Journal of Literary Translation, 8, 6-11.

2013

Morgan, P. (2013). Translating the World: Literature and Re-Connection from Goethe to Gao. Revue de Litterature Comparee, 345(1), 63-79. [More Information]

2012

Morgan, P. (2012). Coming out in Weimar: Crisis and homosexuality in the Weimar Republic. Thesis Eleven, 111(1), 48-65. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2012). Ismail Kadare e l'orientalismo albanese. In Alessandra Scarsella and Giuseppina Turano (Eds.), La Scrittura Obliqua di Ismail Kadare, (pp. 31-46). Venice, Italy: Granviale Editori.

2011

Morgan, P. (2011). Greek Civilisation as a Theme of Dissidence in the Work of Ismail Kadare. Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 15, 16-32.
Morgan, P. (2011). Ismail Kadare's Inner Emigration. In Sara Jones and Meesha Nehru (Eds.), Writing under Socialism, (pp. 131-142). Nottingham, UK: Critical, Cultural and Communications (CCC) Press.
Morgan, P. (2011). Literature and Witnessing. In Deiters, Franz-Josef; Fliethmann, Axel; Weller Christiane (Eds.), Groteske Moderne - Moderne Groteske, (pp. 285-304). St. Ingbert: Roehrig Universitaetsverlag GmbH.
Morgan, P. (2011). Sacrifice, Modernite et perte dans Le Pont aux trois arches de Kadare [Sacrifice, modernity and loss in the "Three-Arched Bridge" by Kadare]. In Ariane Eissen and Veronique Gely (Eds.), Lectures dIsmail Kadare [Readings of Ismail Kadare], (pp. 195-210). Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest. [More Information]

show 1 more

2010

Morgan, P. (2010). Ismail Kadare: The Writer and the Dictatorship, 1957-1990. Leeds, United Kingdom: Maney Publishing.
Morgan, P. (2010). Ismail Kadare: Writing under Dictatorship. Arts: the Proceedings of the Sydney University Arts Association, 32, 69-88.
Morgan, P. (2010). The Wrong Side of History: Albania's Greco-Illyrian Heritage in Ismail Kadare's 'Aeschylus or the Great Loser'. Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 14(2010), 92-111.
Morgan, P. (2010). Translation and Dictatorship: The Case of Ismail Kadare. The AALITRA Review - A Journal of Literary Translation, 2(November 2010), 37-41.

show 1 more

2009

Morgan, P. (2009). "Your Story is now My Story": The Ethics of Narration in Grass and Sebald. Monatshefte fÃ¼r deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur, 101(2), 186-206.
Morgan, P. (2009). Kadare after Communism: Albania, the Balkans, and Europe in the Post-1990 Work of Ismail Kadare. In Christian Moraru (Eds.), Postcommunism, Postmodernism, and the Global Imagination, (pp. 137-167). New York, United States: Columbia University Press.
Morgan, P. (2009). Literature and National Redemption in W.G. Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction. In Gerhard Fischer (Eds.), W.G. Sebald: Schreiben ex patria / Expatriate Writing, (pp. 213-229). Amsterdam: Rodopi.

2008

Morgan, P. (2008). Ismail KadarÃ©'s The Shadow Literature, Dissidence, and Albanian Identity. East European Politics and Societies, 22(2), 402-424. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2008). The Failure to Invent the Truth: W.G. Sebald's Critique of West German Literature. Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch fÃ¼r germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, 1, 35-52.

2007

Morgan, P. (2007). "Die Heimat meiner Seele": The Significance of Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina for Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus. In Christine Magerski, Robert Ian Savage, Christiane Weller (Eds.), Moderne Begreifen: zur Paradoxie eines sozio-asthetischen Deutungsmusters, (pp. 205-220). Germany: DUV verlag. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2007). Consequences of Secondary Literature Study at University Level. Directions in Education, 16(14).

2006

Morgan, P. (2006). Ismail Kadare: Modern Homer or Albanian Dissident? World Literature Today, 80(5), 7-11. [More Information]
Morgan, P. (2006). Kadare - njÃ« Homer modern. Studia Albanica, 62, 102-105.
Morgan, P. (2006). Kadare, njÃ« Homer modern. Shekulli (The Century), 10.
Morgan, P. (2006). Paradigm Change in European Studies in Australia. In Axel Fliethmann, Christine Weller (Eds.), Tendenzen der internationalen Germanistik, (pp. 11-28). Sankt Augustin, Germany: Asgard Verlag.

show 1 more

2005

Morgan, P. (2005). Georges Kien and the 'Diagnosis of Delusion' in Elias Canetti's Die Blendung. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Volume 157. United States: Gale.
Morgan, P. (2005). Ismail Kadare: Creativity under Communism. The Australian Newspaper.
Morgan, P. (2005). Look Wider for Laureates. The Australian Newspaper.
Morgan, P. (2005). The Sign Of Saturn: Melancholy, Homelessness and Apocalypse in W.G. Sebald's Prose-Narratives. German Life and Letters, 58, 76-92. [More Information]

show 1 more

2004

Morgan, P. (2004). Leslie Bodi: Literatur, Politik, IdentitÃ¤t-Literature, Politics, Cultural Identity: Review. AUMLA, 102, 140-145.

2003

Morgan, P. (2003). The Spirit of the Place: Idyll as 'Imagined Community' in Goethe's Werther. AUMLA, (Special Issue) February, 42-55.

2002

Morgan, P. (2002). Ancient Names â€¦ Marked by Fate . Ethnicity and the "Man without Qualities" in Ismail Kadare's Palace of Dreams. The European Legacy, 7(1), 45-60.
Morgan, P. (2002). Between Albanian Identity and Imperial Politics: Ismail Kadare's "The Palace of Dreams". Modern Language Review, 97(2), 365-379.

Selected Grants

2016

Understanding Europe: 3 x 2cp units (Open Learning Environment - Undergraduate), Winter B, Moir C, Morgan P, Karalis V, Sorbera L, Stott C, Walsh A, Alba A, Rubino A, DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant

2011

Writing the World - Transnationalism in Literary Studies, Bandhauer A, Borghesi F, Christie W, Cowan R, Dixon R, Giles P, Karalis V, Kirkpatrick P, Lu Y, Minter P, Morgan P, Parsons N, Rooney B, Suter R, Walsh A, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Collaborative Research Scheme

2010

Kadare post Communism: Albania, the Balkans and Europe in the Work of Ismail Kadare, 1990-2008, Morgan P, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

Page not found

Professor Peter Morgan

Selected publications

Publications

By Type

By Year

Selected Grants

2016

2011

2010